Title: Talismanic Flowers - hand-made album of 12 months of chromolithographed flowers with poetry, plus other ephemera Author: ** Place: Publisher: Date: 1880-1940 Description: With 12 embossed chromolithographed botanical illustrations pasted to leaves, plus accompanying poetry regarding "The Legend of" each flower and a four-line stanza dedicated to one of the twelve months of the year. Plus 2 more leaves with pasted chromolithograph illustrations, floral and children in costume, etc. Plus 9 leaves with newspaper clippings and poetry pasted down, and one original photograph of a garden from 1933. 10¾x9, half black morocco and cloth, red gilt-lettered morocco cover label. A hand made scrap book album comprised mostly of botanical illustrations with accompanying poems, one for each month of the year. Plus other ephemera and newspaper clippings. With printed text pasted to early leaf that reads, "Affectionately dedicated to Hattie Ingober Cleveland, by Aunt Mary." With ink gift inscription on the first leaf, "To Frank from Mama, Bought in Grunville, S.C. Apr. 20, 1880." The newspaper clippings, etc. are from the 1930s and 1940s, and the album was purchased and gifted in 1880. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate rubbing to morocco; pages with scattered yellowing from glue and age; very good. Item number: 230205
Title: Talismanic Flowers - hand-made album of 12 months of chromolithographed flowers with poetry, plus other ephemera Author: ** Place: Publisher: Date: 1880-1940 Description: With 12 embossed chromolithographed botanical illustrations pasted to leaves, plus accompanying poetry regarding "The Legend of" each flower and a four-line stanza dedicated to one of the twelve months of the year. Plus 2 more leaves with pasted chromolithograph illustrations, floral and children in costume, etc. Plus 9 leaves with newspaper clippings and poetry pasted down, and one original photograph of a garden from 1933. 10¾x9, half black morocco and cloth, red gilt-lettered morocco cover label. A hand made scrap book album comprised mostly of botanical illustrations with accompanying poems, one for each month of the year. Plus other ephemera and newspaper clippings. With printed text pasted to early leaf that reads, "Affectionately dedicated to Hattie Ingober Cleveland, by Aunt Mary." With ink gift inscription on the first leaf, "To Frank from Mama, Bought in Grunville, S.C. Apr. 20, 1880." The newspaper clippings, etc. are from the 1930s and 1940s, and the album was purchased and gifted in 1880. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate rubbing to morocco; pages with scattered yellowing from glue and age; very good. Item number: 230205
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